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SSTUWA President Matt Jarman discusses the social media ban and its potential impact in schools.

Education leaders from across Australia have today written an open letter to News Corp Australia, calling on them to immediately cease the publication of misleading school league tables.

We, the undersigned public health, medical and community organisations urge the WA Government to strengthen our laws and improve enforcement in relation to e-cigarettes (also known as vapes).

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has today released Investing in Australia’s Future (2025), alongside new WA specific findings from the AEU State of Our Schools survey, revealing increasing student complexity, the need for smaller classes in WA, escalating workloads and critical shortages of staff across WA public schools.

Fully funded public schools means a better education for every child.

Every child has a right to access a quality education, and our public schools have a long-standing and proven commitment of inclusion for all.

The SSTUWA notes that many of the findings of the review reinforce the conclusions and recommendations of the Facing the Facts review into public education presented in 2023 by Dr Carmen Lawrence and her team.

The AEU’s pre-election campaign was launched with a spectacular drone show above Sydney’s skyline, urging the Albanese Government to fully fund public schools, as promised.

This World Teachers’ Day, Friday 25 October, teachers in Western Australia need more than thanks, they need full funding.

New analysis from Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, has highlighted the large economic, social, and fiscal benefits from funding public schools to 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard.

The full extent of the inequity in Australia’s school funding system has been exposed, with internal Department of Education figures showing a massive overfunding of private schools. The figures are included in a departmental briefing prepared for witnesses appearing before Senate Estimates, publicly released through freedom of information.

The State School Teachers’ Union of WA (SSTUWA) has outlined its proposal for smaller class sizes in WA public schools.

On Thursday 11 May the McGowan government released the 2023-2024 state budget. Hon Simone McGurk's released a media statement about the state budget allocation to support more Western Aussies into jobs.

The Australian Education Union has welcomed the Federal Government’s investment of $4.1 billion in the critical skills education Australia will require for our future economic prosperity and success. “TAFE plays a unique and valuable role in our nation,” said AEU Federal President Correna Haythorpe.

The Australian Education Union has welcomed Federal Labor’s commitment to invest $77m for teaching consent education in Australian schools on International Women’s Day.

New data released today highlights that the Morrison Government’s failure to take responsibility for TAFE has entrenched underfunding, excessive workloads for staff and greater uncertainty for students.

The Australian Education Union is calling on the Morrison Government to deliver urgent funding for public schools in line with the recommendations of the Gonski review delivered a decade ago.

Today the ACTU has released “Morrison Missing – A Record of his Failure for Working Women” – a major report outlining how the Morrison Government has failed to support working women.